Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-25

CndTll6 g SpienOlO IolIOW, only De 8 a
shade TO fastidious for anything
thinks people ought to 60 through
life On carpeted pavements with white
kid gloves on their hands. There Is
such thing as being too refined, and
Pm not sure but that Harvey Walton
would make the better life companion
of the two. Heigho | must decide
definitely when [ return to the city,
for Aunt Lille has no patience with
me when hint obscurely at the pros
pect Of an existence OF single blessed
ness. It's pity one can't remain q
pretty girlforever."
'Drive on jest a little ways, Miss
Lefty, ''said Mrs. Medbury, her nasal
tones interruptinga dreamy thread OF
the girls reverie. 'I've got to stop
to Mrs. Dartmouth's next door"
"Mrs. Dartmouth" thought Lefty
as she shook the reins on old Bon
nie's back and urged the venerable
quadruped into q sort OF drowsy
movement, ''it's rather an uncommon
name. I wonder if she's any relation
to Charlie.
And Lettie caught herself blushing
Celestial rosy red" at the idea.
It was g. cosy little cottage. with g.
veranda, and g. flower patch In front,
such as one often sees in the subur-
ban parts of 81 city, and through the
open doorway Lettuce could see q tall
young man, with g. towel pinned
round his waist, and an impromtu pa
per cap on his head, busted in manip-
ulating long whitewash brush, while
two wooden chairs, with a board
laid across them and a pail Of creamy
white Stacked lime formed his seal
folding and material. And as Lettie
involuntarily glanced forward, draw
ing the broad brimmed straw hat
lower over her forehead, she recog-
nized in the wavy brown curls be-
meath the edge of the paper cap, and
the sparkling hazel dark eyes, the
hair and the glance OF Charlie Dart
mouth himself, the superfastidious
young exquisite of ballroom society.
"Now Charlie, don't, demonstrated
a little old woman in silver spectacles
and snuf-brown alpaca dress. 81
hate to have you do such work and
the room would answer very we'll for
another year for a poor halt-blind
body ike me.
Nonsense, auntie," responded g.
cheerful voice. 81 tell you I'm going
to whitewash this room for you in
regular professional style. What else
do you suppose Tve got to do in
these summer mornings before it is
time to go to the Office? There
don't you see how much nicer it
looks ?"
And he splashed away at the ceiling
with the long-handle / brush more en-
ergetically than ever.
eyes," said the little woman, sit
does look nicer, to be sure. couldn't
afford to hireit done, but it amt just
the work for you to do, Charlie"
"Why not? Don't you suppose I
can afford to be useful sometimes as
well as ornamental ?"
eyes; but-dear me, there's knock
at the door? wonder who it can be?"
Charlie Dartmouth went on with his
work, as the old lady hobbled to the
door to answer Mrs. Medbury's
knock, while Lettice Wayne sat back
in the wagon marvelling at this new
insight into the character of Mr.. Dart
mouth.
She had always liked him, yet she
had feared him as too hypercrit-
ical, too effeminate; now she felt that
she should never fear him any more.
She was very silent during the drive
home, so much so that Mrs. Medbury
looked at her In establishment.
"You're tired, amt your" said the
farmers wife. "Well, | told you it
would be g. hard mornings work for
them as wasn't used to it."
sob, Pm not tired, Mrs. Medbury,"
said Lettuce, looking up, with g. sud
den bright smile; 81 was only think
ing"
"Your thoughts must be pretty toP-
aole pleasant, then," said Mrs. Med
bury. sect up, Brownie, never did
see SO slow g. creetur as you be. Well,
we're home now, that's q comfort"
Lettuce Wayne returned to her city
home when the September frosts be-
gan to touch the glen with varied col
ors OF their autumnal livery, and Just
a month after her return she engaged
herself to Mr.. Charles Dartmouth.
''But Lettice," said the young man,
when the happy certainty of his &C
ceptance was fully impressed on his
mind, "what has wrought such q
change in your sentiments? Before
you went away in tae spring you were
SO cold and variable that I scarcely
dared to hope"
"Do you really want to know, Char
lie?"
"Of course do, you mysterious lit
tie sphinx"
And then Lettice told him how she
had gone With Mrs. Medbury to sell
berries and had seen him unconscious
~ to himself, engaged in helping to
brighten the home of a poor relative.
and how, from that hour, her
thoughts and sentiments toward him
underwent a radical change.
"You will think me very silly and
tickle, Charlie" she said, looking up
with moist eyes: "but | loved you
from that moment"
''Not strange at all, darling" he
answered with tender pressure Of
her hand; "but if ever set up my
own carriage and coat Of arms, the
heraldic device shall be g. whitewash
brush and q pail"